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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Candidate Spotlight: Will Avery (D-Dallas), HD 19

West of Atlanta, Will Stout is trying to win the House Seat formerly held by Disgraced House Speaker Glen Richardson (R) who quit the legislature due to ethical & personal issues. Avery was born & raised in Emauel County (Swainsboro). He left Swainsboro to pursue a degree in anthropology at the University of Georgia. Avery worked for two years as an archaeologist for R.S. Webb and Associates, a small archaeology firm in the Metro Atlanta area. In '06 he took a job as a land surveyor for Dean Olson Land Surveying in downtown Dallas, Georgia.

Avery's core issues are: Education, Taxes, Businesses & Guns.

He is married his fiancé, Laurien, who majored in religion at UGA in 2005, & then at Kennesaw State where she got her master of arts in teaching. She teaches at North Paulding High School & they have one daughter, Norah May